Marc Brody was the pseudonym used by W. H. (Bill) Williams, who was an Australian journalist and one-time editor of the 'Melbourne Truth'.

Written in the first person, Marc Brody was a tough American newspaper man and in later years a television crime reporter. He regularly pursued hot stories and even hotter women and got himself in many scrapes in doing so.

He apparently filled his first reporter's notebook at the age of 124, covering fights for a sporting newspaper. Thereafter he covered almost everything, from local bun-fights to international politics.

In World War II he edited the legendary 'Tobruk Truth', which never missed an issue throughout the whole seige ... not even when a 1500lb bomb hit the presses!

The 1950s was the heyday of his writing when Australia's leading publisher of pulp fiction, Horwitz Publications Inc. was producing spectacularly sexy cover art, which very much suited Brody's style.

Bill Williams married a former ballet dancer of the Bodenweiser group and the couple had two sons and a daughter.

Gerry Wolstenholme
April 2013